Quoting Mike Frantzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm interested in doing some work to update libpcap in the base install up > to > > the current version (0.8.3), or at least up to 0.6. It turns out that > newer > > versions of tcpreplay (which have cool features like the ability to split > packet > > captures across multiple interfaces when replaying them, etc.) require at > least > > 0.6, and OBSD 3.7 ships with a slightly modified 0.5. > > The underlying issue is that we don't trust the new tcpdump/libpcap > guys. The only way our libpcap will get updated is in small diffs > (probabaly about ten of them) that each upgrade one small part. I > started doing this at the hackathon this week (I really want the > tcp-flags feature in the filter language) but couldn't get the diffs > small enough for review. > > .mike > Theo had actually responded to me off-list asking to discuss this in about a week, which I assume means after all of your work gets integrated. Hopefully between the two of us working on it, we can get all of the cool features and none of the cruft integrated. :-) (Note to Theo if you're reading this: I'm happy to sit back and wait until any help I can provide wouldn't just be getting in the way.)
Meanwhile, FYI to anyone who's interested, I've just finished some work with Aaron Turner, the author of tcpreplay, to get the latest stable version working with OpenBSD 3.7 (OK, he did the work, I did the testing...credit where credit is due). Of course, this doesn't negate the benefit of upgrading libpcap, especially since he's got a beta version that's a major revision up that probably wouldn't work until said upgrade is done, but it does mean that I might be able to get an updated port/package set up for 3.7 & below. That said, if anyone here can give me pointers on doing this, they'd be much appreciated...meanwhile, I'll wander over to ports@ to start figuring it out myself. Alex Kirk
